Convert a class of static fields to a dictionary in C#
I was coding in a C# project when I came across a class that was mapping names to GUIDs. Since GUIDs are objects, you can't simply »
Use Python's xmltodict to convert XML to JSON
I found myself recently having to deal with a large and complex XML document. I wanted to use Python's excellent paradigms like generators and list comprehension »
Use System.Xml.XmlDocument to create HTML in C#
If you need to create HTML, it is usually a bad idea to just concatenate strings together. It tends to create brittle and invalid documents once »
Use Ghost's API to retrieve posts
This blog is running Ghost, a relatively new blogging platform developed with NodeJS. It seemed like a perfect match for this website when I was first »
Scraping a book from Kindle (read.amazon.com)
After writing my latest post on scraping text from Amazon's web Kindle reader, I got an idea. I wondered how hard it would be to scrape »
Copy text from Kindle e-books (read.amazon.com)
I recently bought an e-book on Amazon. It had been a while since I had last done it, so I was surprised to see they had »
Implementing Java's String.hashCode in JavaScript
I recently needed a simple way to keep track of if I had seen a particular string before. A naive way to approach this would have »
Upload files as multipart with HTML 5 and Angular 1.6
I recently came across a well designed add-on to upload files with Angular called angular-file-upload. It's highly customizable, takes full advantage of the HTML 5 file »
Create PDFs with HTML using wkhtmltopdf and Node
Creating PDFs is a deceptively simple problem. It seems like a well defined problem. It's a ubiquitous format and they are static. We use PDFs every »
Resizing SVGs in HTML with correct scaling
When I was trying to resize some SVG images to better fit onto a PDF, I thought it would be as simple as resizing a < »